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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor Ami Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
A Good Newspaper
Has Many Obligations
Why is The Covington NEWS conduct
ing a circulation campaign at this time?
This is a good question and probably
you've been turning it over in your mind
after reading the announcement this week
concerning our big “Everybody Wins” cir
culation campaign.
A newspaper such as The NEWS has a
number of obligations. First, it must report
the news fairly and as accurately as pos
sible. It must, in some cases, seek to in
terpret some of the news and give editorial
opinion designed to lie of some service to
the community. It must include in its col
umns a share of feature material and pic
tures that the readers have a right tn ex
pect.
These things we try to do as diligently
as possible.
A newspaper also has a responsibility to
its advertisers as well as its readers. It must
do its utmost to see that the advertiser gets
as much as possible for his advertising dol
lar, just as the reader should get as much
as possible from the reading dollar he
spends.
The NEWS is in what is considered in
newspaper circles as an above-average
group of high-circulation weeklies. Weekly
newspaper circulation seldom exceeds one
third of the town's population
However. The NEWS has excellent ad
vertising patronage. It numbers among its
customers some of the best advertise, s to
be found anywhere. Covington business
firms advertise because they have liad it
proven to tliem that “newspaper adver
tising pays off with more business.”
While our circulation is good at the
present time, even in the above-average
bracket, we feel that it could be better and
that as a newspaper we could better serve
our advertisers and readers by going all
out to gain every family in this trade area
as a subscriber and reader.
We are particularly interested in gain
ing more circulation in Porterdale. Salem,
Almon. Oxford, Mansfield. Newborn,
Starrsville, and among the ever growing
rural population, as well as in Covington.
Liner Circulation Service has been con
tracted to conduct this campaign. This was
not a spur-of-lhe-momenl decision for The
NEWS management lias been making plans
to launch this campaign for several months.
We are anxious to give our readers and
our advertisers our very best and we feel
that we need to increase our circulation to
do this. The NEWS is anxious to stay abreast
of the progress that is being made in our
growing Newton County.
This brings about one other thing: The
NEWS subscription rates are below the
average for newspapers of comparative
size and quality. To bring ourselves up
to date in this department, our subscription
rates must be raised And they will be
raised ... AT THE CONCLUSION OF
THIS CAMPAIGN.
The campaign at this time offers our
present subscribers an opportunity to re
new for one or even more years at the
present low rate. The $3.00 per year rate
now in effect in Newton County and to
our subscribers throughout Georgia will
become $4.00 per year at the conclusion of
the subscription campaign. Out of state
subscriptions will be raised to $4.50.
Circulation campaigns for a newspaper
are not money-makers. Quite the opposite,
the newspaper sacrifices subscription rev
enue in order to give better service. To
help out our campaign from a financial
angle, we could have raised our rates and
then conducted a subscription campaign.
We chose to give our subscribers the break,
however. and THE CAMPAIGN IS BE
ING CONDUCTED AT THE OLD RATES,
with even SPECIAL RATES ON FOUR
YEAR SUBSCRIPTIONS.
SAVE NOW on your NEWS SUBSCRIP
TION . . . NEW or RENEWAL.
Robert G. Dunlop, president of Sun Oi'
Company makes the following statement:
“The public has virtually no conception of
the administrative maze of regulation sur
rounding businesses in this country. But to
the businessman the regulation is a hard
reality. The flow of new regulations and
reinterpretations of old regulations —
many appearing to be at cross-purposes w’ith
one another — introduce elements of con
fusion and uncertainty over the future. Os
all the deterrents to investment, a clouded
future is the most effective.”
The Oregon Council of the National
Council on Crime and Delinquency has
narrowed efforts in the prevention field of
crime and delinquency down to early iden
tification of and timely help to children
with small behavior disorders to prevent
x Uter and more severe and costly correction.
lOur Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
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Cuba Won't Go Way!
Still 90 Miles Distant
After the commotion in Mississippi has
receded into the mists, after the World’s
Series is over and the last word has been
written on the magnificent six-orbit ride I
of Astronaut Walter Schirra — and even |
after Khrushchev, on his UN visit, makes J
or fails to make a deal to relax Berlin
pressures — Cuba will still be right where
it has always been, 90 miles from territo
rial US.
Terrifying now, as a mighty, 40.000 square
mile Sino-Soviet invasion base, it will grow
even stronger day by day — at least until
mid-October. About that time, according
to the White House, there will be some
discussions about denying US seaports to
the ships of our allies and other nations
that are engaged in speeding Red arms. I
material and men to this island fortress
which we allowed a verminous bandit to '
seize for the Kremlin.
Meanwhile, confusing advices from on
high are that Secretary of State Rusk told
the recent Western Hemisphere Foreign
Ministers’ Conference in Washington that ।
we had decided to close our ports to such
ships, after Under Secretary of State Ball
had told Congress that only Soviet ships had
carried arms to Cuba since July. Yet the
US Maritime Commission reported that 169
free world ships — 76 of them with cargoes
■ from Communist countries — went to Cuba
in June. July and August.
And Americans, who had read in their
■ newspapers of the Administration’s strenu
ous efforts to persuade our allies to stop
I ferrying Russian munitions to Cuba, heard
I the Britist Chancellor of the Exchecquer
saying on a US television program that
I we had not asked his country to withhold
| its ships from the Cuban arms run — but
, probably would if we did request it.
What is the explanation of this appar
. ent desire to distract our attention from
Cuba and the continuing vacillation in
facing this Soviet challenge? Is it possible
for responsible statesmen to believe that
Khrushchev is creating this vast fortress
to aid Castro? Or are the free world leaders
agreed on the “better Red than dead’’ phil
osophy?
Oil-Farm Story Points
Up Commercial Relationship
A prime example of how a commercial
relationship can work out not only to the
benefit of the participating parties but to
an entire nation is found in two of our
fundamental enterprises — oil and agricul
ture.
The farmer is the oil industry's best
customer by a wide margin. He spends $3.5
billion a year to fuel, lubricate and main
tain some 4.7 million tractors, 3 million
trucks and a lengthy list of other machines
which have healthy appetites for fuel and
servicing.
And this is really a two-way street.
Oil-powered farming has made an enormous
contribution to each farmer’s productivity.
Less than a hundred years ago a farm work
er could produce only enough food and
fiber for five persons — and that, inciden
tally, is about what a Russian farmer is
able to produce now. Today each American
farm worker produces sufficient food and
fiber for 26 people, and it takes him far
less time and effort than was demanded
of his predecessors.
This is not the end of the oil-farm story.
Power farming, for example, is at the root
of the progress we have made in conserving
our productive land, through contouring,
terracing, and in all the other ways. And
oil-based fertilizers, weed killers and in
secticides play leading roles in the achieve
ments of modern American agriculture.
Where do the rest of us come into the
picture’’ A simple factual statement ans
wers that; Most people on this crowded
planet spend one-half of their incomes on
food. But here in the United States we
spend only a fifth of our incomes to keep
body and soul together.
George Towne, in the Georgetown. Ken
tucky News said. “Only in America . . .
the America of a bygone era. we are sorry
to say, could a man shape his own destiny
. . . Today, however, while he is still rel
atively free to choose his own line of en
deavor, any similarity between that and
shaping his own destiny, is purely coinci
dental. At the top of every business, re
gardless of size, is some bureaucratic office
of the Federal Government . . . manipula
ting, controlling and otherwise effectively
curtailing the efforts of free enterprise in
' a free society.”
The art of taxation consists in so pluck
ing the goose as to obtain the largest
amount of feathers with the least amount
* of hissing. — Jean Baptista Colbert.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington. Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
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SOU* WEEKLY
UNDAY
Redemption. God’s Call
Bible Material: Isaiah 53,
Acts 8:1-3; 9:1-9: 22:3-11; 2
Corinthians 5:18-21; Ephesians
1:3-10; 2:1-10; Colossians 1:15-
22; I Timothy 2:5-6.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
107:1-9; Memory Selection:
There is one God, and there is
one mediator betw’een God and
men. the man Christ Jesus, w’hc
gave himself as a ransom for
all. I Timothy 2:5-6.
Intermediate-Senior Topic;
God’s Outstretched Hand
Young People-Adult Topic.
Redemption. God’s Call.
"What is man, that thou art
mindful of him? and the son of
man that thou visiteet him?”
(Psalm 8:4).
It is beyond our capacity to
understand how with all our
waywardness, our sinning, our
indifference, God could still be
interested in us and interested
to such an extent that He has
provided a vast and all-inclu
sive plan whereby our souis
may be preserved unto eternal
life.
There is probably no truth
in the Bible which stands out
more definitely than this, that
our salvation is not the result of
our own efforts but is given us
freely through the grace of
God. Al! man can do is to st
retch out his hand and receive
what God has to give
Does this mean that good
works have no place in our
faith? It only means that good
works are not the cause of our
salvation but the result of it.
We are not saved because we do
certain things, but having been
saved by the grace of God med
iated to us by Jesus Christ, we
are under obligation to perform
certain good works. These con
sist in the daily acts which go
to make up sound moral be
havior. But they also extend
beyond our own personal ex
perience. We live in a world of
much need. As God’s hand is
extended in mercy toward us.
so our hand must be extended
m mercy toward our fellows.
We are to love both God and
our neighbor.
Thus good works plav a very
; important part in our Christian
' experience; they are, however,
I not the cause but the result of
i our Christian experience. Good
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WEEK NOVEMBER 18-24
S LESSON FOR
CHOOL
works are not the roots of our
salvation but the fruits of our
salvation.
The Christian believers in
the Ephesian Church were
people with a past. It is imposs
ible for us today even to im
agine the moral degradation
which prevailed throughout the
Roman world two thousand
years ago. Conditions which we
regard today with abhorrence
were regarded in those days,
even by the highest-minded
scholars and leaders, as quite
normal.
It was into this seething mass
of iniquity that Paul had walk
ed boldly and established a
church. The Roman world was
dead in its “trespasses and
sins,” and Ephesus was no dif
ferent from any other Roman
city. In verse 2, Paul uses a
suggestive clause, namely, “in
times past ye walked according
to the course of this world. .
“The course of this world”
means the pattern of this world
or the moral and social customs
which have been established by
worldly people.
Also Paul—a man of his age
—believed that the air was
filled with evil spirits, that
these evil spirits had a
"prince,” and that the Evil One
and his demonic hordes worked
disobedience in the hearts of
God’s children. The convers
ation of these people untouched
by the gospel no doubt varied
from frivolity to obscenity. The
lusts of their flesh were con
stantly being inflamed b y
persons and influences whose
business it was to fan into con
flagration the glowing embers
of evil passion Both the people
who did this and those upon
whom they wreaked their aw
ful purposes were “the children
of wrath.”
We are not born good and
destined to become better. We
are born—evejy one of us—
with latent capacities for evil
ever ready to plunge us into
wrongdoing.
“But God ~.”
The human situation would
indeed be hopeless but for God.
We are turned from hopeless
ness to hope, not because we
have suddenly become aware
of our iniquity and decided in
holy revulsion against it to live
a good life. We have been snat
ched, as it were, by the hand of
God from the edge of the pre
cipice on which we stand, from
the consuming flames into
which in our folly we have cast
ourselves.
God is rich indeed in mercy,
and it behooves us as Christian
believers to remember that his
mercy consists not just in the
gracious gifts which He gives
us each day but in the Supreme
Gift which He has made in the
sending of Jesus Christ into the
world.
Let us get out of our mind
the idea that evil is something
attached only to the lives of
criminals or notorious persons.
Evil is something attached to
your life and mine, and hard
as it is for us to confront it—
damaging as it may be to our
pride—we have to admit that
we are dead in sin, victims
writhing under its power, only
we are quickened (made alive)
together with Christ.
In the resurrection Christ
arose from death unto newness
of life. We are “quickened ...
'Lamest Coverage Any Weakly In Th? State! Thursday, November 15, 196$
Georgia Has i
81,000 Vets
As the nation prepared to
mark Veterans Day last
week-end, Harry W. Piper,
Acting Manager, Veterans Ad
ministration Regional Office. I
Atlanta, today reviewed the;
achievements of Georgia’s 381,-
000 living veterans.
He found that veterans had ,
established themselves in every
walk of life with an outstand- I
ing record of adjustment to ■
civilian living—in the profes
sions, the skilled trades, busi-1
ness, industry, farming, gov
ernment.
This adjustment was made
possible to a great degree by
the benefits provided veteran^
by Congress such as GI educa
tion and training and GI loans
Mr. Piper emphasized that
one of the most interesting and
heart-warming facts was that
large numbers of disabled vet
erans, through VA hospitaliza
tion and rehabilitation, are
making their own way in the
world on the same terms as the
able-bodied, with no favors
asked.
The so 11 owing. Mr. Piper
said, were highlights of the
record in Georgia:
More than 273,274 veterans
have prepared for new careers
with the help of the education
al benefits of the World War
II and Korean Conflict GI Bills.
Among these were engineers,
•chool teachers, doctors, den
; tists, nurses, and scientists.
Manpower shortages which ex
! ist in these fields today would
i l>e much greater had it not
! been for these veterans.
GI - trained veterans have
helped to raise the entire edu
cational level of the state, Mr.
Piper pointed out, citing a
Census Bureau report that to
day the average head of the
household has 10.4 years of
schooling as compared with
only 9 years in 1950.
Two other VA programs—
GI loans and GI insurance—
have assisted veterans in meet
ing the challenge of readjust
ment to civilian life, Mr. Piper
said.
Under the GI Loan program
j more than 103,554 veterans
have been able to put down
roots by purchasing homes of
their own with VA-guaranteed
loans. Low-cost GI life insur
ance has given more than 99.-
0(>0 veterans the sense of se
curity that comes in preparing
for the care of their families
should anything happen to
them.
Georgia’s disabled veterans,
fighting their way back to pro
ductive, independent lives, have
been helped along the way by
VA benefits such as hospital
and medical care, vocational
rehabilitation training, com
pensation and pension pay
ments and special grants for
automobiles and carefully-de
signed "Wheelchair Homes.”
Some 16.868 disabled veter
ans received vocational reha
bilitation training The great
majority are employed in fields
using the skills acquired dur
ing training.
When the nation honored its
veterans it was able to laud,
not only their exploits in war,
but their determined peace
time achievements. Mr. Piper
sair.
together with Christ, (by grace
ye are saved).” We are raised
up and made to sit in heavenly
places both in Christ Jesus and
with him.
Paul speaks of the ages to
come wherein God will “shew
the exceeding riches of his
grace in his kindness toward us
through Christ Jesus.” This
term, “the ages to come,” means
two things. In the first place
it means our future. Once the
hand of God has been laid upon
us in love and we have been
lifted out of the power which
sin so maliciously and violently
exercises against us, we enter
into a new and thrilling ex
perience. Darkness is succeeded
by light, power supplants
weakness, confidence takes the
place of frustration and di
vision.
Ages to come also means
eternity.
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Myth of Peaceful
Co-Existence Seen
By India's Nehru
By LEO S. MALLARD
The United States of America is still a baby when you
consider the old countries that have been in positions ol
world leadership for centuries. But, in this nation we have
dared to be different and to shape a new course for demo
cracy. We have found it necessary to promote young, edu
cated men with new ideas into responsible positions of our
government.
A recent editorial in “The :
Saturday Evening Post” reveal
ed some startling facts about
prominent world leaders. It also
showed that the foundation of
the democratic government in
the United States is far more
stable as we face the future
than the governments of many
other countries of the world.
“In the year John Fitzgerald
Kennedy was born, Nikita
Khrushchev was already ser
ving as a draftee in the Czar’s
army, Charles de Gaulle was a
German war prisoner, Jawah
arlal Nehru was running an
anti-British newspaper in
India, and Konrad Adenauer
was elected Lord Mayor of
Cologne.”
These facts not only illustrate
the youth of our President, but
it also indicates that much of
the world is ruled by very old
men. The average age of the 10
most prominent state heads is
72.
We don’t like to think of the
course that these respective
nations may take when these
elder statemen leave office.
Few have groomed a political
heir who can guarantee an
orderly succession. A stroke of
fate could at any moment pro
duce a power struggle in Mos
cow or New Delhi, in Bonn or
Taipeh, or in Paris.
Our affection for some of
these old gentlemen may not
be too great, but generally
speaking, they have been the
cornerstone and guiding light
for the stability and policy of
their nation. They have corrie to
be known as almost “divine
creatures” to their people, and
without them the flock could be
scattered easily into special
interest groups that could tear
these countries apart from
governmental stability, econ
omic prosperity, and military
competence.
The United States is fortun
ate to have a strong two party
system of government to guide
the policy of our nation and to
act as a check and balance of
Winter Weather
Increases Poultry
House Fire Danger
Fires, many of them due to
faulty electrical systems, de
stroy many poultry houses in
Georgia every winter.
These fires are usually due
to the extra load put on the
electrical system combined with
conditions in poultry houses
that increase the danger, ac
cording to Jerry Cox, Exten
sion poultryman for the Uni
versity of Georgia College of
Agriculture.
A little time spent in check
ing and getting the electrical
system in shape for cold weath
er can help prevent costly fires,
he said. He suggested the fol
lowing points to check and cor
rect if needed:
In poorly ventilated poultry
houses during the winter
months moisture accumulate.^.
If insulation is broken or weak,
this moisture can cause failure.
Check condition of the wire at
least once a year, preferably in
the fall, and replace any with
broken insulation. These wires
can also be extremely danger
ous to those working in the
house.
Dust is another condition that
creates dangerous situations.
Dust can accumulate inside mo
tors of automatic feeders and
other electrical equipment. If
these motors are not cleaned
regularly, the dust can cause
motors to burn out and possi
bly start a fire.
One method of removing
dust from motors is with a
vacuum cleaner. When pur
chasing a new motor, consider
one that is dust proof, he sug
gests.
Dust Lorn poultry houses
settles, among other places, on
light bulbs. This is another
danger spot in addition to
greatly reducing the efficiency
of the lighting system. Clean
light bulbs at least every two
weeks.
Improper fusing is another
cause of fires. Be sure the right
size fuse* are used and that the
wiring system Is adequate for
peak loads it will carry.
! power. Our system constantly
produces capable young men
who rise through the ranks to
important positions of leader
ship. Older men who have
served their time in the "spot
light” move aside, but stand by
to provide guidance and advice
that is invaluable to their pol
itical party and its leader as
the party’s program is formed
and put into action.
Both parties are kept in
check by the all-powerful "vote
of the people” and the “re
presentatives” of the people in
Congress. Young men in the
’ ranks of both the Democrats
and the Republicans are always
being groomed to step up and
i compete for government posts
I of leadership.
If a stroke fate removes our
President, the party that he
represented and the platform
on which he was elected by the
, people still remains.
This foundation of our co
| untry is strong. No one man is
indespensible, nor will his re
moval cause a power struggle
: that could split the nation.
'Over 65' Workers
Should Look Into
S. S. Benefits
If you are over 65 and have
not yet applied for your social
security benefits because you
are working, you may be losing
. money. There are more than a
million persons over 65 who
' have not applied for their so
cial security benefits, possibly
because they think they can
not receive any benefits at all
. if their earnings are over SI2OO
per year. This ia not true.
Under recent changes in the
social security law, some ben
efits are payable in many cases
where a person’s earnings do
go over SI2OO a year. How
much they can be paid during
, the year depends on the amount
of the benefits payable each
. month and by how much the
earnings exceed SI2OO. For ex
ample, a person entitled to
; $l6O per month from social se
[ curity for himself and his wife,
could earn $2500 in a year and
’' still get SB7O in social security
benefits for that year.
To use another example, a
person who qualified for a so
cial security benefit of SIOO
per month and continued to
work for wages of S2OO per
month would still get $250 in
social security benefits for the
1 year.
A social security beneficiary
who earns SI2OO or less in a
year, will receive all his social
security benefits, and under a
special provision of the law, a
beneficiary can be paid a bene
fit for any month in which he
does not earn over SIOO in
> wages and is not actively self
employed — no matter how
much he earns over the entire
year.
Also, a beneficiary who con
tinues to work after he reaches
72 years of age receives his full
benefits for every month be
ginning with the month of his
72nd birthday, regardless of
how high his earnings may be.
Remember, though, that these
payments are not automatic. A
person must apply for his ben
efits before he can receive anv
payments. If you are over 65
and have worked under social
security, why not at least talk
it over with the folks at the
social security office? Thero is
nothing to lose by doing so, and
you may find that you can get
■ some benefits each year even
though your annual earnings
do exceed $12.00.
"Engineered Roof”
Roof systems of "engineered
I wood” generate additional liv
। ing pace in a small home.
I With such method*, the roof
is so strong that the number of
partitions can be reduced.
Rooms can be larger with more
storage space.
"Pre-shrunk” Southern Pine
lumber is well adapted to
engineered roof systems. This
material has high strength and
standard framing grades have
stress values required by en
gineered design.
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